Smartinf.ru is the URL address of a Russian website that installs itself as your homepage with the help of a Browser Hijacker. It’s called that because it “hijacks” your browser to change its configuration without asking any authorization from you.
Smartinf.ru gets installed usually after installing a freeware. This is why we always advice people to customize any install process started in their computers, this is the only way they can stop anything useless program trying to get quietly installed.
Besides taking hold of your system without you being able to stop it, Smartinf.ru creators also will take advantage of you to make a lot of money through the incessant and huge amount of ads you’ll be forced to see coming from them. Don’t follow under any circumstance those ads, no matter how appealing they might seem… you could end up with bigger problems.
If you wish, and you probably do, to remove Smartinf.ru and recover your own homepage, follow and execute all steps on the guide presented below.
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